CBSE Class 10 · Artificial Intelligence, code 417 · Sample paper and mock tests 2026-27

CBSE Class 10 AI sample paper and mock tests, solved live with a teacher.

Downloading the 417 sample paper is easy. Knowing what each question is really asking, how many marks a half-right answer earns, and why your child lost three marks on a question they thought they knew is the part that needs a teacher. In our live batch the official CBSE sample question paper is solved together, then three full mock papers are written under time, marked against the CBSE marking scheme and taken apart question by question, with doubts answered live in every class.

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The courses this mock series runs inside

The 417 batch where the sample paper is solved, the Python course behind the practical mocks, and the Orange course for the no-code questions the paper keeps asking about.

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The batch / 417 Class 10

CBSE AI for Class 9 to 12

The full 417 course with its dedicated Class 10 batch: theory on Mondays, practical on Wednesdays, and the sample paper and mock series from December.

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Practical mocks / Python

Python for Teens

The Python behind the 15-mark practical exam: lists, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib and reading CSV files and images, the exact programs the practical mock sets.

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No-code units / Orange

Visual ML with Orange

CBSE names Orange Data Mining for Statistical Data, Computer Vision and NLP; this course makes the tool questions in the paper feel obvious.

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Ans. The short version

The fastest way to use the CBSE Class 10 AI (417) sample paper for 2026-27 is to solve it twice: first untimed with the marking scheme open, to learn what each question shape rewards, then timed as a full mock. The theory paper is 50 marks, Part A employability skills for 10 and the five theory-bearing AI units for 40; the other 50 marks are the school practical. Modern Age Coders solves the official sample paper live in class, then runs three timed theory mocks marked against the CBSE marking scheme, monthly practical and viva mocks, and live doubt solving in every Monday and Wednesday 9 PM IST class, with a personalised one to one option at the family's own timing.

Q1. What is in the official sample paper?

The 417 sample question paper, and the marking scheme that matters more

CBSE releases a sample question paper and a separate marking scheme for every skill subject each session. Most students download the first and never open the second, which is the wrong way round.

Where it comes from, and what it fixes

The sample question paper (SQP) and its marking scheme are published on CBSE's academic website, cbseacademic.nic.in, under sample question papers for the session, with Artificial Intelligence listed among the Class X skill subjects as code 417. For 2026-27, CBSE posted the main-subject sample papers in the third week of September 2026. As of 13 October 2026, the 417 link on its skill-education sample paper page still opens the 2025-26 paper, and because the 2026-27 curriculum keeps the same units and marks, that paper remains the right one to practise until the new one is posted. We solve the 2026-27 paper in the first Monday class after it appears.

The SQP is the board's own statement of the year's question design: how many questions, which are objective and which are written, where the internal choices sit and how the 50 theory marks are spread. In the latest official paper, for 2025-26, the design is 21 questions of which a student answers 15 in two hours. Section A carries 24 marks of objective questions: any four of six on employability skills, then twenty from the AI units. Section B carries 26 marks of written answers: any three of five two-mark employability answers, any four of six two-mark AI answers of about 20 to 30 words, and any three of five four-mark long answers of about 50 to 80 words. The marking scheme is the other half: it lists the value points an examiner looks for in every written answer, and it is the closest thing a student will ever see to the answer key on the day.

Why the marking scheme is the real study material

A two-mark answer in 417 is usually marked as two separate value points, a definition and an example, or two features, or one step and its reason. A four-mark case question is marked in parts: identifying the concept, applying it to the scenario, the working, and the judgement in the last line. A student who knows the topic but writes one long paragraph often hits one value point and misses the rest.

That is why our first pass through the sample paper is untimed and open: the teacher reads each question with the marking scheme on screen, the class sees exactly which phrase earned the mark, and only then is the paper attempted again under time. The second attempt is where the habit forms.

When is the 2027 paper? CBSE had not published the 2027 Class 10 date sheet when we last checked on 13 October 2026. In 2026 the main exams ran from 17 February to 11 March, and the AI paper sat on Friday 27 February from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, in the same slot as Computer Applications (165) and Information Technology (402). Plan on the first board exam starting in the second half of February 2027. The exact date, the practical window and the two-exam rules are kept current on the 417 exam date and paper pattern page.

Q2. How does the mock test series run?

Seven kinds of practice paper, timed to the school year

Every row below is a paper your child writes, has marked, and gets back in a live review. A mock that is only marked teaches little; a mock in which every lost mark is re-attempted on the spot teaches a great deal.

PaperWhenFormatWhat the review produces
Diagnostic paperFirst fortnight after joiningShort mixed paper, one question per theory unit, timedA marks map per unit, so revision time goes where marks are leaking
Unit check testsEnd of each theory unitFifteen to twenty minutes at the start of a Monday classThe unit's question shapes practised while the unit is fresh
Part A drill sheetsWeekly from NovemberTen short employability questions, two marks per unitTen theory marks secured that most students leave to chance
CBSE sample paper, solved liveAs soon as CBSE publishes it, usually by DecemberUntimed, marking scheme on screen, then a timed re-attemptThe year's question design understood from the board's own paper
Full theory mock 1Early JanuaryFull 50-mark paper under exam timeEvery lost mark re-written in the next Monday class
Full theory mocks 2 and 3Late January to the board paperFresh papers in the sample paper's designA climbing score, which is also the best cure for exam nerves
Practical and viva mocksMonthly from OctoberAn unseen program in Jupyter Notebook, then questions on the file and projectThe 50 practical marks rehearsed before the school's assessment

The order matters as much as the papers. The practical file and the project are closed by the end of December, because the school assesses the practical half before the theory paper and a file finished in January steals revision hours from the heavy theory units. That leaves January and February for the three full mocks, each one followed by a review class. Mock papers are set in the sample paper's design, never copied from it, so a student cannot score well by remembering answers, only by understanding them. The full revision strategy behind the series, unit weights and the countdown, sits on the board exam preparation page.

Q3. What happens in a live paper-solving class?

One Monday, one paper section, every answer marked in front of the class

Paper-solving classes are not lectures with a question paper on screen. Students write; the teacher marks live; the class watches marks being won and lost.

  1. Read the question and name what it is worth

    Before anyone writes, the class names the unit, the mark value and the number of value points the answer needs. A three-mark question needs three distinct points; saying that aloud prevents the one-paragraph answer that earns one.

  2. Write in silence, against a timer

    Each student answers on paper or in a shared document under the same time the board allows per mark. Writing to a timer from the first class is what makes a two-hour paper feel ordinary in February.

  3. Answers on screen, marked against the scheme

    Two or three answers are shown, with the student's permission, and marked live against the CBSE value points: this phrase earns the definition mark, this example earns the second, this line earns nothing because it repeats the question.

  4. Every lost mark re-written immediately

    Students rewrite the answer while the reason they lost the mark is still in front of them. That one habit, the re-write, is the difference between a mock that teaches and a mock that only measures.

  5. Live doubts before the next question

    Any doubt, about the question, the concept or the marking, is answered live before the class moves on. Doubts from home are raised at the start of the next class and taken first, so nobody carries a confusion for a week.

Q4. What does a full-marks answer look like?

A competency question from Unit 1, answered two ways

Your school canteen throws away a large amount of cooked food every day. Using the 4Ws problem canvas, scope this problem and write a problem statement for an AI project that could help.

The one-mark answerwhat most students write
The problem is food waste in the
canteen. AI can predict how much
food to cook so that less food is
wasted. This will help the school
save money and the environment.

# Correct idea, no canvas, no
# stakeholders, no problem statement
# in the board's template.
# Typically one mark out of four.

The student understood the problem and still lost most of the marks, because the question asked for a method, the 4Ws canvas, and a specific output, a problem statement. Neither appears.

The four-mark answerwhat the value points reward
Who:   canteen staff, students, school
       management (stakeholders)
What:  cooked food is over-produced and
       thrown away daily
Where: school canteen, at lunch service
Why:   less waste, lower cost, better
       planning of daily quantities

Problem statement
Our canteen staff have a problem of
over-cooking food while planning daily
quantities. An ideal solution would
predict daily demand from attendance,
menu and day of the week, so that less
food is wasted.

Four labelled Ws, then the statement in the board's own template: stakeholders, problem, context, ideal solution. Each part is a value point, so even a weak sentence keeps most of the marks.

Nothing separating the two answers is talent. It is knowing that the question names a method and a product, and that the marking scheme awards marks to each part of both. Unit 1, Revisiting the AI Project Cycle and Ethical Frameworks, carries seven theory marks, and this canvas-plus-statement shape is one of its most reliable questions. In class, students do this drill on three or four fresh scenarios until the four headings appear on their page without being asked for. The same marking logic is applied to the confusion matrix in Evaluating Models and to bag of words in NLP; the unit-by-unit question bank is on the important questions page.

Q5. How are the practical and viva mocked?

An unseen program, a file review and the questions an examiner actually asks

Half of the 417 marks are practical: a 15-program file worth 15, a practical exam worth 15, a viva worth 5, a project worth 10 and a project viva worth 5. Each part gets its own mock.

The practical exam mock

Once a month from October, each student is given a program they have not written before, drawn from the families CBSE suggests for the practical: adding the elements of two lists, mean, median and mode with NumPy, a line chart or a scatter chart with Matplotlib, reading a CSV file and displaying rows or its information with pandas, and reading an image and finding its shape. The student writes and runs it in Jupyter Notebook against a timer, then explains it.

The mock is marked the way a school examiner marks: does it run, is the output right, is the code readable, can the student say what each line does. A program that runs but cannot be explained is treated as half a program, because in the real assessment it often is.

The viva mock

An unfamiliar teacher questions the student on their own file and project, which is closer to the real thing than a friendly rehearsal with the usual teacher. Typical questions:

  • Why did you use a NumPy array here and not a list?
  • What does df.head() show, and what would df.info() add?
  • Which Sustainable Development Goal does your project address, and how?
  • Where is your project in the AI project cycle, stage by stage?
  • How would you know whether your model is any good?
  • What would you change if you had a bigger dataset?

Students who build their file one program a week across the year rarely fear the viva, because every program in it was written by them, in class, and explained at the time. The week-by-week plan for the file and the project is on the project and practical file page, and the Python itself is taught on Python for Class 10 AI.

Q6. How are doubts handled?

Live doubts in every class, not a ticket queue

Inside the class

Every class is live video with the teacher, not a recording. A student who is stuck on a question says so and the teacher works it on the shared screen there and then, usually by asking the student to talk through their own attempt first, which shows exactly where the thinking went wrong.

Doubts from homework

Questions that come up while practising at home are raised at the start of the next Monday or Wednesday class and taken before anything new. With two classes a week, no doubt waits more than a few days, and the rest of the class usually had the same one.

Doubts after a mock

The review class after each full mock is a doubt session by design: every lost mark is a question, and every question gets answered and re-attempted. Students on personalised one to one get their whole session shaped around their own doubts.

Batch or personalised: you choose

Two ways to join the mock series: a fixed batch, or your own timing

Both run the same sample paper, mocks and reviews. The difference is who else is in the room and when it happens. Monthly fees, no admission fee, stop at any month end.

Option 1 · Fixed batch timings

Group batch, Monday and Wednesday 9 PM

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  • Monday and Wednesday, 9:00 PM IST, live
  • Fifteen to twenty Class 10 students, one teacher all year
  • Sample paper solved live, three timed mocks, each reviewed
  • Monthly practical and viva mocks
  • Live doubts in every class
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Personalised one to one

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  • You pick the days and the time, any time zone
  • Mocks paced to your child's school pre-boards
  • Every review spent on your child's own lost marks
  • The right choice for a late start or a tight calendar
  • Same teachers, same CBSE 417 syllabus
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Not sure which fits? The free demo ends with an honest recommendation. Students who join after November are usually better served one to one, because a private schedule can compress the practical file and the mock series into the weeks that remain, while the group batch is already deep in its mock phase. Fees appear in your own currency.

Studying outside India?

Mock test classes for CBSE students in the Gulf and abroad

CBSE schools overseas follow the same 417 curriculum and paper design as schools in India, so the same sample paper and mock series work wherever your child studies. Here is the 9 PM IST batch in local time for the winter exam season.

Where you liveMon and Wed 9:00 PM ISTBest format
India (IST)
every Indian city		9:00 PMBatch fits
UAE and Oman
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat		7:30 PMBatch fits
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain
Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Doha, Kuwait City, Manama		6:30 PMBatch fits
Nepal
Kathmandu		9:15 PMBatch fits
Ethiopia and East Africa
Addis Ababa and East Africa Time		6:30 PMBatch fits
Singapore and Malaysia
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur		11:30 PMChoose 1-on-1

Where the batch lands during the school day or close to midnight, choose personalised one to one and set your own time; the teacher, the papers and the reviews are the same. The Gulf-specific detail, including how families there use the batch, is on CBSE Class 10 AI classes in the Gulf and abroad.

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The rest of the Class 10 series

More pages for Class 10 board students

Ten pages on CBSE Artificial Intelligence 417 and ten on ICSE Computer Applications (Java), from the syllabus to the exam date.

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Questions about sample papers and mocks

What families ask about the 417 sample paper and mock tests

Where can I download the CBSE Class 10 AI sample paper for 2026-27?

From CBSE's academic website, cbseacademic.nic.in, in the sample question papers section for the 2026-27 session, where Artificial Intelligence appears among the Class X skill subjects as code 417 with its marking scheme alongside. Download both files. The marking scheme shows the value points examiners award marks for, and it is the more useful of the two for revision.

Do you solve the official CBSE sample paper in class?

Yes. Once CBSE publishes the 417 sample paper for the session, it is solved live in the Monday class: first untimed with the marking scheme on screen so students see which phrases earn marks, then re-attempted under time as a full mock. Doubts on any question are answered live before moving on.

How many mock tests are there?

Three full 50-mark theory mocks under exam time from January to the board paper, plus a diagnostic paper on joining, short unit check tests after each theory unit, weekly Part A drill sheets from November, the official sample paper solved live, and monthly practical and viva mocks from October. Every paper is reviewed in class with lost marks re-written.

Are your mock papers copied from the sample paper or previous years?

No. Mock papers follow the design of the current sample paper, the same sections, question types and mark split, but use fresh questions. A student cannot pass them by remembering answers, which is the point: the board paper will also be fresh.

Is the theory paper all multiple choice?

No. In the latest official sample paper, 24 of the 50 marks are objective questions and 26 are written answers: two-mark short answers and four-mark long answers of about 50 to 80 words, many of them built around a scenario. Students answer 15 of 21 questions in two hours, and our mocks follow the same design.

Do mocks cover the practical exam and viva too?

Yes. From October there is a monthly practical mock in which each student writes an unseen program in Jupyter Notebook, drawn from the program families CBSE suggests, and explains it, followed by a viva on their own file and project, usually conducted by a teacher they have not worked with, which is closer to the real assessment.

What if my child misses a mock because of a school pre-board?

Pre-boards are expected in Class 10, so the mock can be written at home in the same week under the same time and is then reviewed in the next class. For a run of missed classes, a one-off catch-up slot is arranged. Classes are live and not sold as recordings.

Can a student abroad join the same mock series?

Yes. CBSE schools outside India follow the same 417 curriculum and paper design, so the sample paper and mocks apply unchanged. The 9 PM IST batch is 7:30 PM in the UAE and Oman and 6:30 PM in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. Where the batch falls in school hours or late at night, personalised one to one runs at a time the family chooses.

How much does the mock series cost?

It is part of the monthly fee, with no separate test-series charge: the Monday and Wednesday group batch or personalised one to one, both billed monthly with no admission fee, and the fee is shown on this page in your own currency. The first class is a free demo.

Is it too late to join for the 2027 board paper?

Usually not. The mock phase runs from January, and the practical file can still be completed in time with catch-up support until about November. After that, personalised one to one is the honest recommendation, because a private schedule can fit the file, the project and the mocks into the weeks left. The free demo tells you what is realistic.

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Ask for a demo and your child joins a live class working through part of a 417 paper: a question is read, attempted against a timer, marked against the CBSE value points on screen and re-written. You see the teacher, the marking and the live doubt solving before you decide anything, and the mentor then gives an honest view of whether the batch or personalised one to one suits the months before the board paper.

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